Last time on Secret Assassin…
"Entering His Royale Highness Crown Prince of the Underground and King of the Goblins, His Majesty King Jareth!" a voice loudly proclaims coming from outside. Hearing the boot covered footsteps of her once enemy, Sarah along with the rest of the help bows to His Majesty. As the footsteps got closer Sarah starts to feel that even with the disguise he might still recognize the one person to ever defeat the Labyrinth. Suddenly the footsteps stop and walk towards Sarah. Getting even more nervous Sarah hears a velvety voice call out. "You…"
"You, I have not seen you before." he said with his mismatched piercing eyes staring at her. Stepping forward from the line Cian responds. "She is the new housekeeper you wanted before you left, her name is Ara and she comes from Avalon. She has been here a week Your Majesty."
"Ahh and how is she?" He questioned.
"She does extremely well, she now knows the ways and rules of the palace and gets all her work done on time." Cian praises.
"That's good, now let me get a good look at you." Jareth says turning back to the new maid. Going a little pale Sarah lefts up her face to the Goblin King standing before her.
'She looks a little familiar, I know I've seen those emerald green eyes before.' Jareth says to himself. "Have me met before in Avalon?" Jareth asks with a penetrating look on his face.
"No, Your Majesty. I do not think we have met before, for I am sure I would remember someone as mysterious as you." Sarah disguised as Ara responds.
Chuckling lightly Jareth walks on. Sighing inwards Sarah says to herself 'That scared me for a second, I thought he recognized me.' looking around and seeing how everyone else was going back to work, Sarah stands up and prepares herself for a long and tiring day ahead. Walking to the dinning room to polish the silverware, Moira steps in her way caring a vase full of colorful morning glories. "I need you to take this to His Majesty's room immediately."
"I thought we weren't allowed in his room." Sarah questioned.
"We aren't less given permission, which I have." Moira says with a innocent voice.
"Ok then." Sarah said taking the vase out of Moira's hands. Walking towards His Majesty's room, Sarah starts to get a bad feeling. 'I hope he's not in his room yet.' Sarah thinks to herself. 'I wouldn't want a closer expectation.' Softly opening Jareth's door, Sarah quietly walks in. Not taking a good look around Sarah sees the bedside table. Placing the morning glories on it Sarah starts to really look at the room. Dark red walls with a shaggy soft dark green carpet covering almost the entire floor. The rest of the floor is covered with a nice brownish red wood near the lit fireplace which is on the opposite side of the wall facing the 4 poster bed. The bed is made of the same brownish red wood as the floor, but with dark blue curtains hanging up. Looking closer at the bed Sarah notices a lump under what looks to be blue satin sheets. Moving closer to the bed she see's white blond hair sticking out of the top. Stepping back out of surprise Sarah didn't notice that the floor board was sticking up, making a load squeak of protest from being stepped on. 'Aw shit, I hope that didn't wake him up.' Sarah belittles slightingly to herself. Looking back towards the bed Sarah glimpses and angry Fae who's mismatched eyes were coldly staring her down.
"What are you doing in my room?" Jareth asks in a slow angered voice.
"I… I was putting your flowers on the bedside table Your Majesty, like I was told to." Sarah said in a soft voice putting her head down so he doesn't get a good look at her.
"Were you or were you not told of the one major rule in this castle?" Jareth said again in the soft but angered voice.
"Yes Your Majesty I was." Sarah replies lowering her head more, waiting to be yelled at.
"Since you are new here I will be generous and give you this one warning. If you are ever in my room again without MY permission, then not only will I fire you, I will have you dunked head first into the Bog of Eternal Stench. Do I make myself clear?" Jareth asks, calming down slightly at the remorseful look of his new maid.
"Yes Your Majesty. Thank you Your Majesty." Sarah replies quickly walking fast to the exit.
"Oh and one more thing." Jareth said stopping Sarah from fully opening the door to leave.
"Yes Your Majesty?"
"Tell Moira that if she doesn't want to do her own chores then I suggest that she finds work elsewhere."
With a small smile on her face Sarah answers "Yes Your Majesty I will tell her." shutting the door behind her Sarah slumps to the ground with a loud sigh. "That was close, It's a good thing he seems to like me I guess." Sarah says quietly out loud. Getting up from the ground Sarah starts walking to find Moira to give her, her message from Jareth.
*Jareth's room*
'Now I know I've seen her before, but why can't I remember? That smile it's to familiar for me to forget.' Jareth ponders to himself. 'Something is not right here, and I intend to find out what it is. Also who that girl REALLY is.'
*In the kitchen*
Walking up to the small stout goblin woman, Sarah places her hand on the other woman's shoulder and turns her around. "I have a message for you from his Majesty. He wants me to tell you that if you don't want to do your chores yourself, then you better find work elsewhere." Sarah said with a mischievous smile on her face. Walking away from the now pale and angry Moira Sarah sets off to find Cian to tell him what has just happened.
Walking into Cian's office Sarah quietly shuts the door behind her so she doesn't disturb Cian from what looks to be important documents. Hearing the sound of small light footsteps on the dark gray with swirls of white stone floor, Cian lifts his head up to see who entered. Seeing Ara he smile a small smile and asks if she needed anything. Shaking her head no Sarah talks about what just happened in Jareth's bedroom.
"I can't believe Moira would do that to you, she is nice to everyone else." Cian proclaims.
"Well everyone else doesn't hang out with you as much as I do." Sarah says with a small sigh.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Cian says with a naive voice.
"You still don't know!" Sarah loudly said.
"Know what?
"That she has a major crush on you and that if it got any bigger, then Mount Rushmore would be the second biggest monument in the world. Also when I was first hired she told me to stay away from you, because you are hers."
Looking at Sarah with big wide eyes, Cian starts to think back on all the incidents that didn't make sense to him that involved Moira and other female workers, and discovered that Sarah was right. After Moira talked to the female workers that he was getting close to, they all started to avoid him, unless it involved work.
"I can't believe I never saw that." Cian said with a slight slump to his shoulders. "What do I do? I don't want to get on Moira's bad side, but I'm not interested in females. Even if I was she is not my type."
"Why don't you just say that to her, so she can get over you?" Sarah straightforwardly said.
"What would happen if I do, and she hates me, and starts telling everyone? I might lose my job."
"Do you really think that His Majesty would fire you on the account of your sexual preferences?" Sarah said disbelievingly.
"No, I do not believe he would. Thank you for the encouragement Ara, you are a great friend."
"Sure I have secrets of my own too that I would not like everyone knowing."
"Secrets? What secrets would they be?"
"If I told you it will no longer be a secret now would it." Sarah said smiling brightly while leaving the room.
"Now what kind of secrets would that girl hold." Cian said aloud to the empty room.
Walking down the empty corridor Sarah sees someone walking towards her. As the figure got closer Sarah see's that it is the little elf boy that Cian was making out with. Waving hi the elf boy continues walking ahead like she was invisible. Wondering if he was still embossed about him being caught in a compromised situation, Sarah runs after him. Seeing him turn a corner, Sarah speeds only to knock into the boy.
"Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't know you were there. Are you ok?" Sarah asks getting up and stretching her hand down to help the boy up.
"It's ok, I should not have stopped. Thank you for the help." the boy says grabbing Sarah outstretched hand making Sarah feel a uneasy spark that made her feels chills all over her body. Watching the boy continue down the corridor, Sarah she's that the corridor leads right to His Majesty's personal courtiers. Deciding to go with her gut feeling Sarah starts to quietly follow the boy to see what he was up to.
When the boy goes into a room next to His Majesty's Sarah gets more of a bad feeling. Blending into the shadows like she was taught she quietly slips into the room before the door closed. Looking for the boy, she spots him in front of the vanity. When suddenly a blurry face appears in the mirror that did not belong to the elf.
"Have you got what you need to finish the job?" the face asked.
"Yes, all is going according to plan." the elf boy replied bowing a little.
Nodding his head the face slowly starts to disappear from the mirror. Standing straight again the boy heads back out into the hallway.
"I wonder what the 'plan' could be?" Sarah thinks to herself, "ether way I guess I'll have to keep my eye on the little elf. I hope Cian won't think I'm interested in the boy when I keep asking him questions about the boy."
Making sure no one was in the hallway Sarah quickly leaves the room to find Cian.
Walking past the kitchen Sarah hears yelling. Trying to see what the problem is, she see's Cian and Moira making a spectacles of themselves. Noticing something in the corner of her peripheral vision, Moira turns head to see Ara. Leaving the room in a huff Moira gives Ara a deadly glare that promised retribution before slamming the door on her way out.
"I guess you told her about preference." Sarah said calmly while Cian tries to regain his composer.
"I didn't know she had such a big crush on me that led her to fantasize such delusions about me."
"It happens to the best of us sometimes when we confuse fantasy with reality. I ran into your playmate literally."
"Oh, did you really? Is everything alright?"
"Yes, but would you mind telling me his name? When I think about it you never told me."
"Of course his name Gil."
"And how long has he been working here?"
"I think about half a year. Why are you asking so many questions about Gil?"
"I just thought that since we are friends, I may run into him a lot, so I thought that I should get to know him better."
"Well, I have to tell His Majesty about his schedule tomorrow so I must be off. See you later Ara."
"Bye Cian, I think I'll go to my room to rest so if you need me I'll be there." Walking though the door Ara drops the map of the castle. Without even noticing she continues on her way to her room.
*hour and a half later*
"Good night your Majesty." Cian says closing the door. Upon opening the door to his office he spy's a piece of paper on the ground. Picking it up and turning it around, he sees that it is a map of the castle. "This must belong to Ara. She must have dropped it on her way to her room. She should still be up, I guess I can take it to her now." Making his way to Ara's room Cian hears a noise coming from her door. Running to make sure that Ara is alright he opens the door and see's a girl with long chocolate brown hair with Ara's eyes in Ara's clothes.
"Who are you and what have you done with Ara?"
To be continued.
Authors notes: First I would like to apologize for this late update. My fan was not working on my laptop and I just got it fixed. I hope you liked this update and would really appreciate some reviews to know what you thought, and if you have an idea's. My co-author seems to not want to talk today, so I bid you all adieu.